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• Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2025

  > I assumed those would be in,

  A new edition doesn't mean features are automatically stabilized.

  I agree with these two specifically, it would be great to have them in stable. They're not yet though: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/5083

• Automated Testing and Dev Containers
  7 projects | dev.to | 15 Nov 2024

  Firstly, I added a section to run the code formatter rustfmt and the linter clippy:

• You can't do that because I hate you
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2023

  The author provides very surface-level criticism of two Rust tools, but they don't look into why those choices were made.

  With about five minutes of my time, I found out:

  wrap_comments was introduced in 2019 [0]. There are bugs in the implementation (it breaks Markdown tables), so the option hasn't been marked as stable. Progress on the issue has been spotty.

  --no-merge-sources is not trivial to re-implement [1]. The author has already explained why the flag no longer works -- Cargo integrated the command, but not all of the flags. This commit [2] explains why this functionality was removed in the first place.

  Rust is open source, so the author of this blog post could improve the state of the software they care about by championing these issues. The --no-merge-sources error message even encourages you to open an issue, presumably so that the authors of Cargo can gauge the importance of certain flags/features.

  You could even do something much simpler, like adding a comment to the related issues mentioning that you ran into these rough edges and that it made your life a little worse, or with a workaround that you found.

  Alternatively, you can continue to write about how much free software sucks.

  [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/3347

  [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/10344

  [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/commit/3842d8e6f20067f716...

• Let else will finally be formatted by rustfmt soon
  5 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jul 2023

  The new style still supports single line let-else, and there is a configuration parameter to make it be on one line also for longer lines.

• Is rustfmt abandoned? Will it ever format `let ... else` syntax?
  11 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jun 2023

  It seems there is an issue about this dating all the way back from 2018 but yet it still hasn't been fixed.

• Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (22/2023)!
  10 projects | /r/rust | 29 May 2023

  However since 4179 recent versions should merge configuration files. Not sure what the details / specifics are but if just ignoring the file entirely is not good enough you might give it its own directory and rustfmt.toml file and see if that works.

• Rustfmt refusing to work with certain functions.
  1 project | /r/rust | 26 Apr 2023

  Could this be be #3863 - Gives up on chains if any line is too long? It might not be, because I can't see a specific "line" that's too long to format, but there's more detail about the exact problem in the issue.

• Rust Tips and Tricks #PartOne
  3 projects | dev.to | 8 Apr 2023

  Rustfmt is a tool that formats Rust code in compliance with style guidelines. Its name precisely reflects its purpose. To install rustfmt, you can run rustup component add rustfmt. Once installed, you can execute cargo fmt to format Rust code in your workspace. If you require further information, you can visit rustfmt’s GitHub repository.

• What are some good practices when writing rust?
  2 projects | /r/rust | 28 Feb 2023

  code must be formatted with rustfmt.

• HTML Limpo
  1 project | /r/brdev | 21 Feb 2023
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